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A super easy lunch recipe ready in minutes, this Avocado Tuna Salad recipe will quickly become a lunch staple. Swap the mayo for avocado in this healthy lunch recipe that you and your whole family will enjoy.
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Easy Avocado Tuna Salad
This is my go-to lunch recipe! It’s simple, delicious and ready in under 10 minutes. I always keep canned tuna on hand for this reason!
Avocado is the perfect swap for mayonnaise in classic tuna salad. It has the same creamy texture but is a great source of healthy fats. Paired with the protein from tuna you’ve got yourself a well balanced meal.
Whip this avocado tuna salad up last minute or meal prep in advance. Either way, you will love it!
Ingredients in Avocado Tuna Salad:
- Canned tuna – Be sure to grab flaked white tuna! Drain out any excess liquid from the can.
- Avocado – make sure it’s ripe! The flesh should give slightly when you gently press in.
- Celery – adds the perfect crunch!
- Red onion – adds a zesty spice and flavor to the recipe.
- Apple – for a hint of sweetness.
- Walnuts – or any nuts you have on hand.
- Pickle juice – trust me on this! It adds SO much flavor.
- Dijon – a key ingredient in tuna salad in my opinion.
- Spices – dried dill, cumin, salt and pepper. If desired you can also stir in some fresh herbs like cilantro or parsley.
What kind of Tuna is Best for Avocado Tuna Salad?
I prefer flaked white tuna in my tuna avocado salad. The Wild Planet white albacore tuna is my favorite. Just be sure to drain your tuna of all liquid before using. White tuna is 100% albacore tuna whereas light tuna is a typically either skipjack tuna or yellowfin tuna (or a combo).
Sometimes canned tuna comes packed in oil rather than water. I recommend grabbing one packed in water and draining it out.
Learn how to make this Avocado Tuna Salad Step-by-Step
Watch Davida make this super easy and delicious Tuna Salad! Ready in just 10 minutes.
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How to Serve Avocado Tuna Salad
One of my favorite things about tuna salad is how many different ways you can enjoy it!
- Eat it with a fork right out of the bowl.
- Salad on salad. I love this salad on a bed of greens or romaine lettuce. So much flavor and great if you’re keto or low carb.
- Make a sandwich! It’s delicious on toast. Add greens, tomato and/or cheese if you’re feeling fancy.
- Scoop it out of the bowl with tortilla chips or crackers.
- Make a wrap by adding greens and tuna salad to your favorite type of tortilla.
How Long will Avocado Tuna Salad Last?
Your tuna avocado salad with last for up to 5 days in the fridge.
Keep in an airtight container rather than covering with plastic wrap to help prevent browning. You can also squeeze a little lemon juice or lime juice onto your salad as well. Note: your salad may brown slightly but that’s okay. It is simply aesthetic and the salad is still very much edible.
More Easy Lunch Recipes:
- Guacamole Avocado Chicken Salad
- Avocado Egg Salad
- Curry Chicken Salad
- Mediterranean Egg Salad
- Buffalo chicken salad
- Curried Smashed Beans and Avocado salad
- Pesto Egg Salad
Avocado Tuna Salad
A super easy lunch recipe ready in minutes, this Avocado Tuna Salad recipe will quickly become a lunch staple. Swap the mayo for avocado in this healthy lunch recipe that you and your whole family will enjoy.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 4–6 servings 1x
- Category: Entree
- Method: Mix
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 2 cans of flaked white tuna, drained
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 red apple, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped, toasted walnuts
- 1 tbsp pickle juice (or water-if using increase salt slightly)
- 1 tsp dried dill
- 1/2 tsp dijon mustard
- 1/4 tsp cumin
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mash up avocado with the back of a fork or potato masher.
- Add in tuna, celery, red onion, apple and walnuts. Mix well.
- Add in pickle juice, dried dill, dijon, cumin and salt and pepper. Mix well.
- Serve on bread, top on salad or eat plain.
- Will keep up to 5 days in refrigerator.
Ermygerd I would cry if avos were three dollars AND I’d be poor. This tuna looks so freaking good because 1) I adore tuna (what jew doesn’t) and 2) I adore avocado. Match made in heaven gurrrllll!!!
I do the EXACT same thing with avocados. Looks like you found the perfect one b/c this sammie looks so so yummy!
I LOVE avacado! I am currently in an aggressive avacado obsession :p
I don’t love tuna salad but maybe if I mix it with avacodo I’ll like it!? Great idea 🙂
Karen @karenlovestorun
I’m picky with choosing my avocados too! If I’m paying for them, then I have the right to be picky! Luckily I’ve never been approached by the avocado police before! lol
Anyway, this tuna salad looks delicious! I like how you use toasted walnuts. I’ve never tried that with my tuna salad before. Great idea!
Lol at what you said about hate reading some blogs – so true! I don’t really notice that much drama in the blog world, but I can definitely sense it’s out there. I’d rather just stay out of it and hear about it through the grapevine… I like my regular dose of gossip as much as the next person. 😉
Anyway, I’m glad you finally got around to posting this – it looks fantastic!
$3 for an avo is craziness! But then again, I may just be a spoiled Californian…
Gosh I hope you don’t hate-read my blog!!! 😉
I feel ya with the avocados. Those babies are expensive! The other day Matt brought home a dud and I was genuinely upset about it. As for this tuna salad, it looks amazing! I make tuna salad all the time but never thought to add in avocado. Can’t wait to try it.
I have to admit I’m a creature of habit and eat the same things a lot. I’m so busy though and never home except the weekends. During the week I’m up at 4:30 so I can workout by 5, off to work by 7:15 then home from work by 6:30-7 (traffic). I don’t have time to mess with thinking about what I’m eating. I have to prep it on the weekends and make it last through the week. In many ways, starting my blog and reading other blogs has helped me venture out of my comfort zone and try other delicious foods that I never would have tried before. Love this recipe by the way! I eat tuna almost everyday. Mixing avocado with it is genius!
Wait, are you not supposed to feel up all the avocados? Good thing we don’t have avocado police at my grocery store because I am allll up in that avocado pile.
Tuna fish is weirdly the very last meat that I gave up, and I really really wish someone had mashed some avo in it! Now I make avocado egg salad and that’s perfectly delicious.
I’ve detached myself a bit from the blogging world lately. I’ve found that having a little more distance does me good. I read my favorite blogs, but I’m trying to be less in tune with the trends. I think it’s helping me find the balance between being part of the community and being consumed by it, if that makes any sense.
I guess we forget about posting what we eat most often since it doesn’t seem as exciting to us! That being said, this looks great! I love using avocado to replace mayo in tuna salads 🙂 So yum!